Category: Datenschutz

Yesterday, I joined some people from Chaos Computer Club Zürich (CCCZH) to visit the Cybercrime Coordination Unit (KOBIK) in Bern. The background was a Freedom of Information Act based request by the CCCZH: KOBIK provides a list of domain names that host child pornography. It is seen as a voluntary DNS blacklist for ISPs (and all the large Swiss ISPs apply this list). Naturally, groups like the CCCZH are worried given the non-public and intransparent nature of this list, lack of independent monitoring, and its possible implications for future expansion to other areas. This is not a theoretical danger, given...

[quote][i]”Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.” “We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.”[/i] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace]A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace[/url], John Perry Barlow/EFF, 1996[/quote] I’ve been playing with the latest release of [url=http://www.i2p2.de/]I2P[/url] for a while now, and I must...

Nice demonstration of the CSS/history privacy issue: [url=http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/]whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com[/url]. Also currently in the news: EFF’s [url=http://panopticlick.eff.org/]Panopticlick[/url].